A great conversation between horticulturalist Poppy Okotcha, Black Geographers founder Francisca Rockey and Flight Free UK team members Sunita Soundur and Armelle Ferguson on privilege, climate justice, the conflict between wanting to see your family abroad and the actual worry that your homeland will disappear into the ocean and much much more. A must-listen, if ever there was one.
The Climate Emergency - Missing In the News
The organization Media Matters for America’s report on how the news outlets ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News reported on the climate crisis in 2020 confirms what we all already knew - the climate is pretty much left out of the story, even when reporting on climate-related disasters.
Vox Article: "What’s your “fair share” of carbon emissions?"
“Why do we, and our governments, act as if businesses have some sort of “right to wreck” our life support system? Do the wealthy have a right to continue using resources at rates that science says will cause vast future suffering? In effect, this pits existing rights against each other: pursuit of happiness by unlimited consumption interferes with the right to life of others.”